Children’s Garden Seasonal Assistant Coordinator

Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s world-renowned Children’s Garden is seeking a seasonal assistant coordinator to help with the implementation of gardening programs for children ages 2 to 13 years old. The assistant coordinator helps develop garden-based curriculum for children and teens, supervises seasonal instructors and teen apprentices, and supports horticultural upkeep of the Children’s Garden. The assistant also co-leads a young child–caregiver gardening program two mornings per week in the spring and fall and teaches an after-school gardening program to teens from a local high school.

Work Schedule: Tuesday–Saturday (35 hours/week in spring and fall, 40 hours/week in summer)

Primary Responsibilities:

Participate in development and delivery of three-week training program for all BBG summer instructors, in addition to one-week summer training program for Tier 1 apprentices in the Garden Apprentice Program.

Direct teaching as a Trees and Saplings instructor for two- and three-year-olds with a caregiver on Wednesday and Thursday mornings in spring and fall and serve as a substitute instructor as needed.

Provide horticultural support for the children’s vegetable plots as well as ornamental and display beds within the one-acre garden.

Communicate with participants’ families/caregivers.

Manage program supplies and plants.

Help with annual events related to the Children’s Garden and the opening of the new Discovery Garden at BBG this summer.

Develop and teach after-school gardening program on Tuesdays in spring and fall to teenagers from BASE High School.

Willingness to work a three-day overnight summer camping trip with students from Garden Apprentice Program, July 17–19, 2015

Experience and comfort working with youth and staff from diverse backgrounds

Compensation: $18/hour

Application Deadline: February 26, 2015

Application Requirements: Please send a résumé and cover letter indicating the title of the position, along with the names of two references with contact information. To apply for multiple BBG seasonal positions, send a single application, making note of all the positions in which you are interested in your cover letter as well as in the email’s subject line if submitting application via email.

How to Apply:

We will only accept résumés for those positions currently available. This notice is updated periodically; consequently, some of the positions listed may already be filled. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please send a résumé and cover letter indicating the title of the position desired to: